FirmPilot: Multi-Agent Framework Significantly Improves IoT Firmware Rehosting

Jul 17, 2026

FirmPilot is an evidence-guided multi-agent framework designed to enhance IoT firmware rehosting by iteratively recovering boot, state, and network artifacts. In evaluations on the LFwC corpus, FirmPilot increased web-service reachability from 25.49% to 52.39% and network reachability from 39.30% to 71.93% compared to the prior FirmAE system. The framework also raised the average number of detected services per firmware and enabled downstream analysis workflows such as RouterSploit interaction and protocol-aware fuzzing.

Why it matters: This work represents a substantial advance in automated IoT firmware analysis, improving the reliability and scalability of dynamic analysis for security testing and vulnerability discovery.

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